Help us improve the living stroke guidelines

The Living Stroke Guidelines recently celebrated 6 years of operation. An external review conducted after the first three years of the guidelines being ‘living’ found a greater level of trust, intention to access and intention to use compared to the static guidelines.

Major changes in stroke have occurred over the last decade, with many major new trials adding to our knowledge. These changes have been rapidly integrated within the Living Stroke Guidelines.

However, Australia performs poorly for several aspects of care, including time-based metrics for reperfusion, which has led to the current focus of the National Targets initiative from the stroke community.

To better understand the impact of new research and the living guidelines, and to provide important information for efforts to meet the National Targets, further evaluation is needed. As such, the Australian Living Evidence Collaboration and the Stroke Foundation are conducting an updated evaluation to explore Australian clinicians' and policy makers' awareness and responses to the living guidelines, and where applicable their response to the new and updated recommendations for reperfusion therapy in particular.

We are now inviting Australian healthcare practitioners and others who deliver stroke care to complete a brief survey.

The survey explores awareness and uptake of the guidelines and new/updated recommendations, triggers for changing clinical practice, recommendation/guideline implementation steps, barriers, facilitators, and opportunities for improvement. It should only take 10–15 minutes to complete. Participation is voluntary, anonymous and very much appreciated.

For more information, please see the Explanatory statement (PDF).

The survey is now open.

Access the survey online

Please let us know if you have any questions or need any further details about the survey.

Kind regards,
Dr Tanya Millard (ALEC) and Kelvin Hill (the Stroke Foundation; khill@strokefoundation.org.au)